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ohhhhhh :( And bloodburn is actually NOT used as a plot device in the book it’s in, which is why I feel like it Should Matter? The character who has it is just a very good secondary/main character with a chronic illness, which is cool.
but also yeah star wars just… really goes in hard for fridged moms. always. all the time.
man sometimes i feel like i’d be better at this than the people getting paid to do the writing LOL
I mean. Handwavey space magic. I do recall reading the thing that a person could apparently live with bloodburn for a long time, so if it killed Shara, it would be because she didn’t stop. So that still dovetails neatly into the self-harm PTSD arc idea :( :( :(.
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I mean, I have enough trouble handling the (entirely feasible) idea espoused by Kes in HOitW that she wouldn’t have stayed with him if she’d lived.
Did I already have him say that? Crap, I don’t want him to repeat himself. But listen. Listen. Kes has deep-seated traumas going back, like, his whole life, and maybe he doesn’t wind up with PTSD exactly, but he’s gonna have Some Shit to Deal With, his whole life. He can retain his fundamental honesty and optimism, and still have a real wide streak of never believing that anything good will last. He may or may not be justified in his doubt that things would have remained good with Shara, but he’s not pulling that out of nowhere.
I don’t want to take away any of their fairy-tale romance, I don’t want to take away the positive representation of healthy Space Latinx everythingness that they are, but I do want it to be complicated, because in real life it’s complicated. And also, I’m trying to do what I can with a canon that fridged her for no reason and to no purpose. So.
I’m still working on that Kes/Leia scene in the epilogue but he is definitely, in a very vulnerable aftermath, going to confess to Leia that seeing that impression of Shara’s last moments and having that remove the tiny little shred of doubt he’s always had, that maybe she let herself get killed on purpose, was an incredibly, profoundly healing moment for him, but also means that he has to take a moment to melt down with all the grief that little bitter doubt held back for so long.
ohhhhhh :( And bloodburn is actually NOT used as a plot device in the book it’s in, which is why I feel like it Should Matter? The character who has it is just a very good secondary/main character with a chronic illness, which is cool.
but also yeah star wars just… really goes in hard for fridged moms. always. all the time.
man sometimes i feel like i’d be better at this than the people getting paid to do the writing LOL
I mean. Handwavey space magic. I do recall reading the thing that a person could apparently live with bloodburn for a long time, so if it killed Shara, it would be because she didn’t stop. So that still dovetails neatly into the self-harm PTSD arc idea :( :( :(.
sugarspiceandcursewords replied to your post “aimmyarrowshigh replied to your post : …”
I mean, I have enough trouble handling the (entirely feasible) idea espoused by Kes in HOitW that she wouldn’t have stayed with him if she’d lived.
Did I already have him say that? Crap, I don’t want him to repeat himself. But listen. Listen. Kes has deep-seated traumas going back, like, his whole life, and maybe he doesn’t wind up with PTSD exactly, but he’s gonna have Some Shit to Deal With, his whole life. He can retain his fundamental honesty and optimism, and still have a real wide streak of never believing that anything good will last. He may or may not be justified in his doubt that things would have remained good with Shara, but he’s not pulling that out of nowhere.
I don’t want to take away any of their fairy-tale romance, I don’t want to take away the positive representation of healthy Space Latinx everythingness that they are, but I do want it to be complicated, because in real life it’s complicated. And also, I’m trying to do what I can with a canon that fridged her for no reason and to no purpose. So.
I’m still working on that Kes/Leia scene in the epilogue but he is definitely, in a very vulnerable aftermath, going to confess to Leia that seeing that impression of Shara’s last moments and having that remove the tiny little shred of doubt he’s always had, that maybe she let herself get killed on purpose, was an incredibly, profoundly healing moment for him, but also means that he has to take a moment to melt down with all the grief that little bitter doubt held back for so long.
